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Durrington and Durnford Churches. 



The masonry of the chancel is probably nearly a century later 

 than that of the re-modelling of the nave, or late in the 12th 

 century, it is therefore probable that the latter work was built 

 against an earlier chancel which remained in use for some time 

 afterwards. The chancel has been restored by the Ecclesiastical 

 Commissioners, who re-built, apparently, the whole of the north 

 wall and part of the south, with one buttress here. The windows 

 have, however, been preserved. On the north there is a central 

 flat buttress with a slightly pointed lancet window on each side : 

 there were corresponding windows on the south, but only the one 

 on the south of the sanctuary remains intact, the other has been 

 cut into and blocked up in forming the priest's doorway, which in 

 itself has been modernised. The east window is a triple lancet 

 under a pointed arch, and is of the same period, with a low flat 

 buttress beneath it. In the north wall near the west end is an 

 early example of the small low-side window ; it is 7 inches wide, 

 with the broad inner splay of jambs carried round the arch ; the 

 hooks for the shutter still remain. Between the blocked-up lancet 

 on the south and the wall a two-light pointed window was inserted 

 in the 15th century, and the proportions of it seem to have been 

 adapted to its cramped position. 



The south porch is an oak-framed one of the 15th century, and 

 portions of the cut barge boards from this are fixed on the modern 

 north porch. 



There are two aumbries, rebated for shutters, inside the east 

 wall, the one on the south only (1 foot 10 inches wide and 10 inches 

 high) has a chamfer carried round ; the other (1 foot 7 inches wide 

 and 10 inches high) has two circular holes in the north jamb, 

 1J inches in diameter — one 4 J inches and the other 3 J inches 

 deep. From the crosses cut on this stone I conjecture that it was 

 previously used in a vertical position. 



The nave windows contemporary with the buttresses and door- 

 ways have all disappeared ; those which doubtless existed on each 

 side of the south door gave way, in the 15th century, to two-light 

 square-headed windows, one of which had a transom, but the part 

 above it has since been removed to insert a wooden-framed window 



